Re: [asa] Torture

On 8/6/08, mrb22667@kansas.net <mrb22667@kansas.net> wrote:
> Maybe I'm just not understanding something below, but how can someone (the
> teacher) lie by asking the question? The teacher may be guilty of poor
> judgment on when/how to ask the boy such a thing. And the boy, however
> noble
> or protective and deserving of sympathy his motivations were, technically
> was
> still the one making a statement & therefore lying. (Or his parents were
> lying through him by coaching him to give a false answer.)

The issue of the Christian Century in which this was argued is recent
-- within the past month. I no longer have my copy (actually, friend
wife's copy -- she it is who is the minister).

The argument has to do with two things, age of consent and a technical
lie vs one that is meant to protect. But it is more nuanced than that.

Burgy

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Received on Thu Aug 7 09:33:08 2008